Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt